The Sea of Grass (1947)




Katharine Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas, James Bell, Ruth Nelson - The Sea of Grass




Colonel James Brewton is the owner of over a million acres of grazing land as part of his cattle empire. He is opposed to the opening of the West for homesteading. Lutie Cameron marries James Brewton and has a daughter with him. Lutie, overwhelmed by the vast grassland and her husband's rigid attitudes, leaves him and goes to Denver where she meets Brice Chamberlain, a progressive lawyer and has a son with him. She tells her husband the truth and he accepts it stoically. However, rumors of the situation hurt them both. Lutie leaves him again. Years later, her son is killed by a posse. Their daughter, now grown, brings Lutie and James together finally.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Sea of Grass

James Robert Parish
Hollywood's Great Love Teams
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Homer Dickens
The Films of Katharine Hepburn
New York, 1971

Donald Descher
The Films of Spencer Tracy
New York, 1968

Books with an entry on The Sea of Grass

Herb Fagen
The encyclopedia of westerns
New York, 2003